Yes, it’s true, white folk have a Wakanda, too, but its name is different, because, even though it’s chock full of myths, ideals, tales, and potions, it actually exists in real time, with real flesh and blood, with real cities and realities attached to it. Its name is democracy. Its name is Iowa, or New York. Its name is bread, and car, and air, and speech, and school, and law and travel and society; in other words, whatever and wherever whiteness exists and is seen as normal and necessary, as usual, as taken for granted, as presumed, as invisible and unaccountable and, therefore, not
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